Where Am I?

The beginning of a quilt-as-you-go kids quilt.

I've only been awake for a little while, but already my day has taken an upward curve. It's not a great picture, but I'll explain:

Yesterday my fellow Tuesday Bee Group and I met up to sew. I only had one project in my bag.....a gentle curve idea for a kid's quilt. I started with seven 18" squares, all stacked right side up on top of each other and cut a gentle curve through all layers. Sharp rotary blade required. I then mixed and matched and sewed them back together in this order. Well, not exactly in THIS.

There's always a story. Because I knew I would not get the blocks arranged the same way twice, I took a picture of the way I wanted the quilt top to be sewn back together. Just a friendly reminder to self of how the task should be completed. Hmmmmm. Yep, you guessed it. Even with the photo to prompt me, I still sewed my blocks together in not the right order! I thought I would learn to like the arrangement, but alas, it just wasn't working for me so when I got home, I ripped a couple of seams, re-arranged and now like THIS arrangement better.

I was just about to sew all these big blocks back together this morning when the idea hit me!

I've been wanting to do a demonstration for the quilt guild on how to complete a quilt-as-you-go-quilt. Now that this quilt top is ripped, I have the perfect opportunity to make a step-by-step of how I do the quilt-as-you-go (QAYG) technique.

I'll post more about this as I progress in making my QAYG sampler. In the meantime, remember that a smile is an indicator of which direction your day will go. Upward curves...we all have them.

Next on my list of what kept me smiling: I pulled some of my most recent mod fabric purchases and pinned them in random order on my design wall. I like this already and think this improv design will make a great modern quilt using the QAYG method to easily get a quilt made....from start to finish:

I so enjoy watching you play with a block, sew it together and then what you do after that, is just amazing..........I love that 1/4" quilting apart on blocks............looks like quilting as you go is fun also.............love what you do.!!